Kent Conrad: “Are we preparing ourselves for the future or are we only going to talk about that?”

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

I urge you to vote for the confirmation of Dave Turk. I urge you to do it quickly.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

Can I just respond quickly, Mr. Chairman, and say when Simpson-Bowles went down, a group of six of us in the Senate, three Democrats, three Republicans, were asked by leadership to see if we couldn't come up with a way forward to adopt the…